Hoegh Osaka

This is the 51,000-tonne car carrier,  Hoegh Osaka  which was deliberately run aground on Bramble Bank in the Solent after starting to list quite badly shortly after leaving Southampton docks last week, on her way to Germany with a load of cars, excavators and engineering equipment.

The salvage engineers who’d been appointed to refloat and re-right the ship were taken by  suprise last Thursday when she floated off Bramble Bank on a high tide.

She’s currently still listing at around 50 degrees to starboard, and is tethered between two salvage tugs while the engineers pump 3000 tons  of water out of her hull, they’ll then right her by adjusting her ballast system.

Just to clarify her orientation in the image, you're looking at her deck area, her stern is to the left and bow to the right.

Not much colour around this afternoon, just many shades of Grey.